Book review - What were they thinking: the politics of ideas in Australia by James Walter with Tod Moore, UNSW press, Sydney, 2010

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Marsh, I 2010, 'Book review - What were they thinking: the politics of ideas in Australia by James Walter with Tod Moore, UNSW press, Sydney, 2010', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 108-110, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2011.00709_4.x.

Abstract

This engaging study, by James Walter withTod Moore, offers a comprehensive surveyof Australian political life. So far as I amaware, there is no better overview of unfoldingcircumstances or of the ideas throughwhich their meanings were interpreted. It joinsa pr´ecis of issues and developments to theideas that mediated their resolution